Sound Bite: Bonnie Story
It was actually um, I don’t want to say harder, but it was um bigger to fill because it’s on the big screen and so when you’re thinking about choreographing for the big screen it’s not just you know there’s so much detail and you have to fill it with movement and with feeling and with energy and so um it’s more of a challenge and to make it make sense and make it real and not just like a little dance in the movie, so it was a challenge but it was it’s, film is my favorite, I love film. It was really fun.

Sound Bite: Bonnie Story
Absolutely. The morning, early morning that we wrapped, it was very emotional because most of us have been through all 3 movies and so it’s just like oh, you know, it’s just like a family and we’ve taken this process together and this amazing artistic journey together and yeah it was really emotional for all of us. It was crazy for the cast, for the dancers, for us, for people on the set even, you know that have been with us throughout the 3 movies so it was amazing.

B-Roll – HSM3 Premiere – peeps walking by, cutaway, Molly Gray, some fans, a jib arm w/ camera, Goodyear Blimp, Galen Center to wide of RC

B-Roll – HSM3 Premiere – HSM sign with photogs in front of it, some tall dude but not sure who he is since it’s so far away, random people walking by RC, fans

Sound Bite: Peter Barsocchini
I never imagined but here is the secret to High School Musical. The first movie I wrote for my daughter, who was at the time 10 years old and her name is Gabriella who then became the character that Vanessa Hudgens plays, so I said I’m gonna write something that my daughter would like to watch and we had no idea it was gonna become this but when we were shooting the first movie, I would bring home dalies that we were shooting and I’d show her Zac and I’d see her go, “Who’s that?” And I go, “Oh we got a chance, this could be good.” So we got lucky from the beginning.

Sound Bite: Peter Barsocchini
You know it’s been amazing because we got to let them, particularly in High School Musical 3, we got to allow them to grow up and act you know like people who are graduating, you know we’re not trying to make a documentary about real high school, we’re trying to make a musical comedy, but some of the emotions that they feel are what high school kids feel and to be able to, it’s easy to time for me to time travel back and watch these kids experience it. I think one of the secrets to the success is the cast, Zac, Vanessa, Ashley, Corbin, all of them have grown up together the last, this was their high school because they’re sort of home schooled because they’re working all the time and so they see each other, there’s a prom in High School Musical 3, there’s a prom to end all proms, and for them they are talking about it, they’re saying, “Wow this was a prom that we always wanted to go to.” So there is a sort of parallel universe going on for the cast and the people in it, it’s been really crazy but great, you know and I think you see with the cast Zac and Vanessa, what you see is what you get, they are nice kids, you know, they’re good kids.

B-Roll – HSM3 Premiere – Alyson Reed, Peter Barsocchini

Sound Bite: Alyson Reed
It’s very exciting to see them. They’ve grown up so much as human beings, and they’ve matured so much as actors and um performers, I’m just very very proud of them and all of their accomplishments.

Sound Bite: Alyson Reed
No everybody was in tears when we wrapped, it was and there was, I had a couple scenes after, the big group wrap, but the day the big group wrap, it was tough, it was so it’s kind of bittersweet tonight saying goodbye to everyone. Yeah.

B-Roll – HSM3 Premiere – Bill Borden, Andy Garcia

Sound Bite: Bill Borden
No, we had the premiere in a screening room at Disney Studios and had the party at the commissary. And the kids, the 6 main stars, they sat at commissary tables and we had posters for anybody who wanted to sign them. And I think each one of those posters is worth a fortune right now if you put them on eBay.

Sound Bite: Bill Borden
But I think all kids have the same problems they go through to be accepting in school, to be a kid who’s understood in school, to have an ambition to have a desire and then to have it work out and to feel like instead of just comforming and fitting into the box that your schoolmates want you to, sometimes you don’t want to fit into that box or it’s uncomfortable to fit in that box, it’s something else. This movie gives kids permission to say I’m not, I don’t have to be like you, accept it.

Sound Bite: Bill Borden
Yes. Zac and Vanessa are absolutely wonderful. And what I was saying the other day at one of the press conferences, I’m not sure if you were there, but we all were friends together for 3 years now, we’re having dinner again tomorrow night, we hang out together, the kids come over to my house, we’re all friends, it’s great. It’s really unusual. I think it shows on the screen.

Sound Bite: Borys Kit
We are here on the red carpet at the premiere of High School Musical 3, woo, which is a humungous event uh far surpassing the tween audience. It’s something that’s now a worldwide phenomenon. We’ve been having these premieres rolling out around the world finally landing here in Los Angeles. They’ve shut down a major street, Figueroa Street and it’s being held in the Gallon Center which is a big basketball court, stadium for USC. What they are doing inside actually 3000 people are here, they’re splitting the stadium in half, filling it with audiences and having a huge screen which they’ll be digitall projecting the uh screen. Down that way you can hear Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens who are obviously huge sensations. There’s students and kids everywhere screaming their heads off. It’s a natural, organic, pulp culture phenomenon that actually kind of slipped bigger out of Disney’s hands. The budget for this was 40 million and because this is the first time this is being a theatrical movie. The first 2 were straight-to-DVD phenomenons selling millions of copies and adding you know billions to the bottom line for Disney.

B-Roll – HSM3 Premiere – Ashley Tisdale, various